The Wall Street Journal opinion page carried this article yesterday. It can give you some idea of the negligence of the city and state government in Louisiana. (Click on the title bar, where it says Muck Raking to connect to the article.)
The blame is consistently being aimed at FEMA and George Bush and the National Guard and... well, anyone but the people who were paid to do the job that didn't get done.
Kanye West went so far as to say that this mess in NO is happening because Bush doesn't care about dark-skinned citizens. (Thanks, Kanye. The flight to Fantasyland is now boarding.)
This mess in NO is happening because we own a huge portion of the coastline on the Gulf of Mexico and that's where a lot of hurricanes happen and when this one happened it hit a city that is not built to withstand a powerful hurricane and Lake Pontchartrain's levies collapsed and... the mayor and the governor and all their respective offices didn't take corrective action when they knew about problems and they didn't implement the written plan that they have.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
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